Recording layer influence on the dynamics of a soft underlayer

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 38, Issue 5 I, 2002, Pages 1994-1996

  Litvinov, Dmitri ^a   Lyberatos, Andreas ^a   Wolfson, Jason ^b   Bain, James ^c   Khizroev, Sakhrat ^a  

^a SEAGATE RESEARCH   (United States)

^b Maxtor Corporation   (United States)

^c CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Perpendicular magnetic recording media; Scanning Kerr microscopy; Soft underlayer (SUL) dynamics

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; KERR MAGNETOOPTICAL EFFECT; MAGNETIC ANISOTROPY; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; MAGNETIC FILMS; MAGNETOSTATICS; SWITCHING;

SOFT UNDERLAYER (SUL) DYNAMICS;

MAGNETIC RECORDING;

EID: 0036762422     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2002.801799     Document Type: Article

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